2.  1814- Dorothea left home because of alcoholic/abusive parents  1821- Opened school in Boston. Taught children from well- to-do families. After some time she decided to poor and neglected children at home.  1836- met the Rathbone family who introduced her to the belief that government should help with social welfare.  1840 & 1841- Returned to America to care for mentally ill people who had no one to care for them.  1846- Traveled to Illinois to study mental illness. She met with legislature and they adopted first mental hospital.  1848- called for reform in mental illness when visiting North Carolina.  1849- North Carolina State Medical Society formed  1856- Hospital named after Dorothea Dix

4.  Known as British nursing hero of Crimean War  Soldiers called her “Lady with the Lamp” because she worked throughout the night helping British soldiers.  1858- Took notes entitled Notes on Matters Affecting the Health, Efficiency, and Hospital Administration of British Army, started reform in hospitals.  1860- published notes on nursing  1860- opened a nursing school at Saint Thomas Hospital in London  Felt nurses should be trained in science and also advocated for attention to cleanliness and nurses should have compassion for patients  She started nursing to be the important profession that it is today and saw to it that hospitals were kept safe and clean from patients.

6.  Parents hoped for her to become missionary  At age of 4, family moved. 6 weeks after her father passed away from lung hemorrhage.  Family moved back to Newbury, VT. Her mother became ill with tuberculosis.  Linda nursed her mother through her final illness and was only 13 years of age when her mother passed.  She began training under Doc Currier, the family doctor.  1860- got married  1865- husband got ill. She nursed him until his death in 1869.  She moved to Boston and was hired as an assistant nurse at Boston City Hospital

7.  Signed up for nurse-training program.  A year after training she is first to graduate  Created a system for charting and keeping medical records for each patient.  1874- ready to take over the floundering Boston Training School  1877- met Nightingale who suggested she attend King’s College Hospital and the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary in England  1878– becomes ill from overwork and uses that to open first nurse-training program in Japan.  1883- opened more schools in Massachusetts, Philadelphia, and Michigan.